Billboard reports the album, which was released through RCA Records, moved 157,000 equivalent album units by the end of the first week ending on March 31 and 112,000 of those units were pure album sales.

Nice!

Not only that, but seeing as how Zayn was born in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, he has now become the FIRST MALE U.K. solo artist ever to

But one thing Cyrus' team talks about in the feature is her new album — which she wants to give away for free!!

In the piece, there's a reference to Cyrus releasing her next album completely for free — and if her label, RCA Records, hadn't been down with that, she was allegedly prepared to buy herself out of the label just to give her fans free music! Whoa!!

We're not sure whose idea it was to part ways, but the singer's last album didn't do nearly as well as his first. His sophomore effort sold 15,622 in the first week of release, while his self-titled debut sold over 80,000 copies the first week.

Either way, it doesn't sound like he's too bummed and said in a statement: